A weekend of painting, and some mystery plants

This has been a busy weekend! All day Saturday and all day Sunday, we have been cleaning, painting, shopping for cleaning and painting supplies, or vigorously debating colour schemes. Luckily for me and Skry, we have some extra labourers in the forms of Phil and Lou, who are helping us out now in return for some free accommodation once the house is fit to live in.

I've already applied primer to every fake-wood brown surface in the kitchen, and will get some proper paint to do it up with tomorrow. I'll post the results here so you can see the before-and-after pics, but I'm already sure that it's going to look way better.

We also have some mystery plants in the garden. In fact, the only plants I can say I truly recognise are daffodils and flax. I deduce that there's an apple tree because there is a big tree with rotting apples on the ground around its base, and I think the pink flowery thing is a camellia, but that's about it. Can anyone name these for me? (The ones where you can't see grass around them are trees/bushes.)

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Sorry about the poor picture quality - I took them all on my mobile phone. If anything is of particular interest I can go back with a proper camera.

EDIT: After a variety of comments and suggestions from various people, this is what we think the plants might be:

1 – Alchemillia (Lady's Mantle)

2 - Camellia

3 - Magnolia

4 – Cordyline australis (Cabbage Tree)

5 - Pseudopanax laetus 'Five-finger'

6 - variety of Agave

7 – still unknown - I need to get a better photo

8 - euphorbia

Thanks, everyone!